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Saturday, 19 April 2014

These Internet
scammers want
your dogecoins to
'save Venezuela'

Doge Save Venezuela purports to be raising funds to help dissidents using Dogecoin, but how legitimate can it be? More »
How the Internet
made the printer
sexy again

Thanks to Kickstarter, a new wave of innovative printers are hitting the marketplace. More »
Bee supporters get
Ebay to stop
selling banned
pesticide in U.K.

Neonicotinoid chemicals pose an 'acute high risk' to bees. More »
Man uses Twitter account to trick English town into believing he’s the mayor

Apparently all you need to be mayor is the right Twitter account. More »
Study claims 3 percent of kids have viewed online porn in the U.K.

That's almost as many Americans voted for Ralph Nader in 2000. More »
Banksy turns his eye to UK surveillance

A mysterious painting appeared overnight. More »
Who’s on NSA’s list of 122 heads of state to track?

We only know 11 of the 122. But No. 9 is the NSA's old favorite, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. More »
How this marketer gamed Tinder for hundreds of matches

Blake Jamieson used Photoshop to exploit the Tinder platform. Is this ethical? More »

This is why
psychologists hate
journalists

That quiz you took to check if your colleague was a sociopath isn't all that accurate. More »
Why I rank my friends by income, IQ, and hotness

Milo Yiannopoulos explains why he keeps a database of his friends and colleagues and rates their personal, professional, physical and financial attributes. More »
Tech City: I hate to say ‘I told you so’

In the first instalment of his new weekly column, Milo Yiannopoulos reflects on Government disasters in east London, Lily Cole’s website and Adolf Hitler. More »
Advice for aspiring Edward Snowdens

Edward Snowden wasn't the hero that the American people needed. Greg Stevens looks at why his mission as a whistleblower failed and what the next government leaker should bear in mind. More »
Is it OK to laugh at Hitler now?

Mein Kampf is sailing to the top of the e-book charts. Jeremy Wilson on how the Nazis are becoming fair game again - and why that might be dangerous. More »
The anti-sugar campaign is sinister and silly

You don't bully people into eating more healthily by banning sugar. It's a cop out designed to grab headlines, says Chris Tilbury. More »

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